East Chapel Hill
| East Chapel Hill (NC) | |
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| Location: Chapel Hill, NC | |
| Coaches | Will Holub-Moorman |
| Program Status | Unknown |
| School Size | Unknown |
| NAQT Page | link |
East Chapel Hill High School is in North Carolina.
Current members of East's quiz bowl team include two generalists, Will Holub-Moorman (team captain), and Jacob Reed (club secretary), in addition to Sung-Hoon Kim (club treasurer and science/mythology specialist), Yuyi Li (club VP and history specialist), Roman Lin (science specialist), Bernie Amaldoss, Bethany Ao, Ritam Chakraborty, Grant Holub-Moorman, Vishwas Rao, and Milica Stanisic. Notable strengths of the team include music and pop culture/current events.
In the 2011-2012 season, the team of Holub-Moorman, Kim, Lin, and Reed has so far won St. Mary's Belles Bowl and the State History Bowl Championsipp and placed second at Tar Heel Cup, Quaker Bowl, Enloe Invitational, the Duke Academic Fall Tournament, and the Duke Spring Tournament. The team also qualified for the 2012 HSCNT; after placing 20th in the preliminary rounds (including individuals ranked #31 and 43), East tied for 13th place overall in the playoffs, ranked 21st in the nation, amongst two other NC teams.. Holub-Moorman and Reed were also named to the North Carolina All-Star Team, which is planning to compete in the 2012 NASAT.
In the 2010-2011 season, the A team placed 4th at the Duke Invitational Meet, 3rd at Raleigh Charter's Right Triangle Open, and won WCHL 1360AM's Community Quiz Bowl challenge against Carrboro and Chapel Hill High Schools.
Notable ex-players include Alex Loyal, art history and physics specialist, Alex Mariakakis, Music (especially jazz) specialist, generalist Josh Loyal, History and Politics specialist Ezra Dunkle Polier, military history expert Jun Hong, and mythology guru, all-around player, and member of the 2009 North Carolina All-Star Quiz Bowl Team Arthur Kim.